Let us speak to the idea of disillusionment and finding hope and faith in a
cynical world where such things are often ridiculed. Life is sometimes depressing
when you think about it. Even when there’s joy in the world, there’s still menacing
domains slipping in. No matter how important our lives may be, physically
speaking, we will all be dust in a matter of years. Why would anyone want to
live in this most depressing of times?
The answer is that in the midst of gloom, there is faith. And indeed,
sometimes it feels like we are in the midst of darkness and that the light of
life has been truly obscured. Many of the institutions that are supposed to
serve us—whether they be businesses, corporations, government entities or legislators we elected to serve us—have made mistakes along the way leading to
the fact that people have been left forsaken. The Church is the institution
that is supposed to give people a higher purpose and a higher feeling of providence,
has too frequently proven incapable of coping with the burden and has been stained
or corrupted by the power within its own structure. But even in the darkest of
times, there are people who do the proper thing and make the appropriate decisions
and choose the more difficult path. As Christians of true faith each of us are one
of those people. We know that individuals have become cynical, disconsolate and grieved
by a world that often undermines their optimism, but the real believer also
knows that it’s important to maintain one’s faith in a higher power. Let each
believer remain steadfast throughout these troubled times, let us remain good
men and women of faith even though our position in the priesthood of believers
could mean our ruination or in a not too distant future, perhaps our demise.
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